Topic
The Map
Orientation pieces: how the problems fit together, where the gaps are, and how to think about doing good.
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The biosecurity bet
Pandemic preparedness gets roughly $1-2B a year in philanthropic funding. COVID-19 cost the world $12.5 trillion. The maths of this neglect are hard to look at.
6 May 2026 · 7 min read
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The climate charity map
Most climate donations fund the wrong things. Here's where the smart money actually goes, and why innovation policy beats carbon offsets by orders of magnitude.
5 May 2026 · 7 min read
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The neglected tropical diseases
1.7 billion people are affected by neglected tropical diseases. Treatment costs as little as $0.50 a year. The funding gap is a scandal in plain sight.
1 May 2026 · 7 min read
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The animal welfare gap
Animal welfare gets roughly 3% of charitable giving despite affecting orders of magnitude more sentient beings than any other cause. The gap is staggering.
27 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The funding gap
Some problems attract far more money than their scale warrants. Others are chronically underfunded. The gap between funding and need is giving's key map.
25 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The aid architecture
Global aid spending is roughly $220 billion a year. Most people have no idea who pays, who receives, or why the system is shaped the way it is. Here's the map.
23 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The great decoupling
Dozens of rich countries now grow GDP while emissions fall. The good news. But the decoupling is more fragile than the charts suggest. Here's what holds it.
20 April 2026 · 6 min read
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The map, on one page
If you had one A4 sheet to answer 'where should my effort actually go,' this would be on it. A working map of where impact lives in 2026.
18 April 2026 · 5 min read
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Where the money actually goes
Americans gave half a trillion dollars to charity last year. Most of it didn't touch the most cost-effective work by a factor of a thousand.
17 April 2026 · 7 min read
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The Climate Adaptation Gap
We spend billions cutting emissions in rich countries. The places already being hit spend almost nothing adapting. Need and money look nothing alike.
2 May 2025 · 7 min read